The day after Wei Boqiu was about to find a ship to leave for North Korea, several steam engine sailing ships loaded with people and supplies sailed into the port of Damo, which shocked the people who were working on the docks, because there were so many things that had been stolen this time.

The five steam engine sailing ships that drove into the wharf alone carried more than 3,000 Ming people and a large amount of supplies, and there were also four squadrons of soldiers on board. The nearly 900 soldiers of the Standing Squad returned after more than two months of travel, and their faces were full of exhaustion, but in terms of mental state alone, they were extremely excited. It is no wonder that everyone has repeatedly defeated strong enemies outside, defeated the Qing army in full swing several times, and also rescued a large number of people who were willing to escape from the "clutches" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and captured a large amount of grain, gold, silver and livestock.

In fact, the self-confidence of the army is cultivated little by little. Among these people are newly recruited mud legs, wild warriors and their descendants from Japan, remnants from Dashun, wild men from the north, and some soldiers from the Qing army. At least they don't pay attention to those green battalions of the Qing army, even the Han Eight Banners dare to fight face-to-face. As for the Manchu Eight Banners, although they are still a little unconfident in the face, at least they don't dare to look directly at the beginning, and now if the pre-war mobilization is done well, everyone will dare to go into battle and compare with the Eight Banners.

Gao Cuihuan did not wait for the boat to stop, and with a longitudinal leap, he jumped from the deck of the transport boat to the soft beach of Da Po Harbor. On the beach, more than 2,000 people from Yangzhou Province were laboriously pulling bags of supplies to the shore. And on the docks of the port of Da Bo. A large number of Ming refugees dressed in sky-blue jeans are marching to the beach under the organization of cadres. Preparing to receive and transfer supplies into the warehouse - well, the warehouse is going to be expanded again, who will make this expedition quite fruitful.

"Mr. Wei." Gao Cuihuan saw Wei Boqiu, who was wearing a gray woolen coat, walking over surrounded by his entourage, and immediately stepped forward and saluted. Wei Boqiu was the deputy commander of the gendarmerie, and he had the right to monitor the officers and soldiers of the marching team, no matter how big or small, so he was still in awe of the other party. In addition, Wei Boqiu is also in charge of the economic work in the Heishui area, and in Gao Cuihuan's eyes, he seems to be a think tank role like a military advisor, and he has always had great respect for scholars. Therefore, when he saluted, his whole body collapsed and straightened, and he did not dare to slack off.

"Oh, Deputy Captain Gao, you've come just in time. Hurry up and pack your things and go with me to Jeju Mansion. Wei Boqiu saw that Gao Cuihuan, the deputy captain of the second brigade, was standing in front, and immediately said happily.

"Yes!" Gao Cuihuan agreed loudly, and after agreeing, he touched his head and said, "Mr. Wei, I don't have anything to pack, everything is on the boat." Well, if you go to Jeju Prefecture. Do you want me to bring a team of boys with you? Qin Shangxing and Zhai Congge's gang were not credible, so they went to prevent Mr. Wei from going alone to suffer. I think it's safer to bring all four squadrons with you. ”

"It's rare that you have a heart." Wei Boqiu looked at Gao Cuihuan with some appreciation, and said with a smile: "The brothers have been fighting for a long time, and they are all a little tired, and I can't bear to follow me to Jeju again at this time." In this case, you can pick two complete squadrons of 500 people to go out with me, and as for the remaining two squadrons, they will stay in Dabo to rest. With so many displaced people just coming here and unloading so many supplies, I am not very relieved, so I left two squadrons here to maintain order. ”

"Then leave the 18th and 19th squadrons here, and the 17th and 2O squadrons will be taken to Jeju." Gao Cuihuan quickly made a decision, and after getting Wei Boqiuken, he immediately went to arrange his subordinates.

While waiting for Gao Cuihuan to settle his subordinates, Wei Boqiu also stood by and observed these newcomers boredly. In particular, there were about seventy or eighty prisoners of the Eight Banners, all of whom were wounded and wounded by the Bannermen captured in the Battle of Yangzhou and later in the Battle of Baipuzhen, all of whom were now dejected and escorted to Dabo Harbor, where endless labor awaited them in the lumberyards.

"Keep your head without braids, keep your head without braids!" A correctional officer from the Dabo Port Labor Camp staggered over with a saber in his hand. According to the regulations, these Qing prisoners first need to cut off the braids on their heads that are in the way - this is a hard bar without negotiation, according to Mo Dashuai's warrant, that is, "keep your head without braids", no one can violate it!

Under the threat of reality, these shackled Eight Banners soldiers were much more realistic than the Ming people, they shaved their heads very happily, and then they were escorted to the lumber yard one by one by the corrections to settle down. According to the people of the East Coast, the next day is the day when they will atone for their sins against the army of the East Coast, and if they are good, they will be amnesty, and if they do not work hard, they will be hanged.

Gao Cuihuan quickly arranged his affairs, and led two squadrons of five hundred spearmen to line up neatly by the dock, waiting for further orders from Wei Boqiu. Wei Boqiu saw that it was getting dark, so he instructed his student Chen Shuo to support the daily work at Daberport, and then he picked a ship that seemed to be in good condition, and turned around and sailed towards Jeju Island under the escort of five hundred soldiers.

On July 11, the steam engine sailing ship carrying Wei Boqiu slowly sailed into Jeju Prefecture, the largest port on Jeju Island. The dock had just been relieved of its hustle and bustle, as a large amount of livestock captured in the battle was sent to Jeju Island for storage - the same supplies as the four warships and 18 medium-sized fishing boats that had returned earlier. Although Jeju was a defense site for Jae, its wharves were managed by the Dong'an, who built some wooden warehouses here to store all kinds of supplies temporarily. After all, many immigrants board ships from here to Australia in winter, so it is necessary to store a large amount of supplies in advance.

This time, a total of 22 ships returned in advance, bringing back a total of about 6,000 stone of grain, 500 head of livestock, and more than 3,000 Ming people who volunteered to leave Da 6 (mostly Rugao County township soldiers and their families). These people were being placed on the dock at this time, and they were "accompanied" by more than 1,000 township soldiers led by Sun Shouzhong.

When Sun Shouzhong was under the city of Rugao County, he led his troops to capture and kill several Qing court officials who were strongly resisting the army on the east bank, which was a great achievement. Looking at the current meaning, Mo Dashuai will most likely let Sun Shouzhong take his subordinates to Jingyi County to garrison, and it will be his lair in the future, as a reward for him, and by the way, to fill the vacancy after Wang Jiazhong led his troops to leave. I heard that after the people from the east bank left Jingyi County, the Koreans there were quite dishonest, so let Sun Shouzhong lead his troops to play and suppress them, and teach those North Korean sticks how to behave.

As for Jeju, the richest province on the island, it is still under the command of Zhai Congge. This guy has been fighting with the army for more than two months, and the losses of his 2,000 men and horses are not light. In particular, the two routs that occurred in the battles with the Qing army's green camp outside and inside Yangzhou caused him to lose hundreds of soldiers - including more than 100 defeated soldiers who were ordered by Marshal Mo to be beheaded by the formal military law. If you count the attrition due to illness, only about 13,400 of the 2,000 people who were full of troops at the time of this expedition returned to Jeju Mansion with him, which made Zhai Congge feel sad.

However, Mo Dashuai rewards and punishes fairly, and never hesitates to reward his subordinates who are willing to fight hard. Although Zhai did not perform well when he fought in the war, this was related to the suzhì of their troops, and it could not be said that they did not work hard. At least from the perspective of an onlooker, Zhai Congge himself did not passively avoid the battle and preserve his strength during this expedition and the last attack on Gyeongsang-do Province in Korea, so Mo Dashuai not only rewarded Zhai Congge with a large amount of goods and livestock, but also allocated more than 500 Qing troops to him to replenish his losses, and finally allowed him to recruit hundreds more soldiers, bringing the number of troops to 2,500, which is still the strongest of the three divisions in Jeju.

Wei Boqiu had little interest in these idle people on the docks, and after he asked an officer from Zhai Cong's department, he learned that Mo Dashuai himself seemed to have gone to Yantai Port with the remaining ships for maintenance. Therefore, he did not hesitate, and immediately entered the Jeju capital city directly surrounded by Gao Cuihuan and others, and then ordered Zhai Congge to meet him.

Zhai Congge, a vassal general who was in a position to surrender, naturally did not dare to slack off on the summoning of a powerful figure like Wei Boqiu in the Heishui region, so he quickly rushed to meet him. Wei Boqiu didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked Zhai Congge to immediately count the number of Koreans in the territory under the jurisdiction of Jeju Prefecture, and then report it to him. He clearly pointed out in front of Zhai Congge that these Koreans would be sold to Nanyang like piglets, and asked him to immediately organize soldiers to search according to the household register.

Today, more than half of the tens of thousands of North Koreans on Jeju Island (about 20,000 people) are concentrated in Jeju Prefecture, and they have to pay tribute and taxes to Zhai Congge and his subordinates every year, which is considered their source of wealth, and how can Zhai Shengge let them go. However, when he saw Wei Boqiu's uncertain face and the dangerous eyes of Gao Cuihuan who came with him, this thing immediately agreed to the situation, and then ordered his subordinates to handle this matter with a bitter face.

Considering that Zhai Congge was also regarded as an earlier foreign general of the "Conglong", Wei Boqiu did not want to persecute him too much, and he soon told Zhai Congge that the Korean women and their families who married his subordinates could continue to live in Jeju Prefecture. In addition, the people on the east coast of the east coast of his lost population will also be replenished, and for every Korean Wei Boqiu sold, he will be given a Ming person, so as to ensure that his interests will not be greatly lost.

In Wei Boqiu's plan to "revitalize the economy," trafficking North Koreans to the Dutch was one of the three major policies of Wei's economics, along with the expansion of domestic demand. As for the last of the three major policies, it was to pass through Korea and the Amur River region and incorporate them into the economic colonies of the East Coast - of course, this was a major project in the order of ten years. (To be continued......)

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